Parking of vehicles is allowed on all city streets or parking areas subject to the following restrictions, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or traffic-control device (including school buses), no person shall:
(A) Park, stand or stop a vehicle:
(1) Alongside any curb or sidewalk painted yellow, which abuts said street or highway, whether or not signs are erected giving notice thereof;
(2) On any city street for the purpose of selling goods, wares or merchandise, without a permit;
(3) On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street;
(4) On a sidewalk or street planting strip;
(5) Within an intersection;
(6) On a crosswalk;
(7) Alongside or opposite any street excavation or construction project when stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic;
(8) Upon any bridge;
(9) In any place where official signs prohibit stopping;
(10) In front of a public or private driveway or within five feet of the end of the curb or radius leading thereto;
(11) Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant;
(12) Within 20 feet of a crosswalk;
(13) Within 20 feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station and on the side of a street opposite the entrance to any fire station when properly signed; and
(14) Within 30 feet of the approach of any flashing signal, stop sign, yield sign or traffic-control signal located at the side of a roadway, except the downtown commercial area described in division (A)(15) below; or
(15) At any place where official signs prohibit standing or parking.
(B) Park or stand a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except to momentarily pickup or discharge a passenger or passengers;
(C) No vehicle shall park within one block of a building during the time the Fire Department is fighting the fire;
(D) The driver of a vehicle when approaching the front or rear of a school bus that has come to a stop on a street within the limits of the city and is receiving or discharging school children shall abide by the following under MCA § 61-8-351:
(1) Shall stop the motor vehicle not less than approximately 30 feet before reaching the school bus when there is in operation on the bus a visual flashing red signal as specified in MCA § 61-9-402; and
(2) May not proceed until the children have entered the school bus or have alighted and reached the side of the highway or street, and until the school bus ceases operation of its visual flashing red signal.
(E) (1) Parking in a business district alley shall be unlawful, unless so directed by a police officer, in compliance with an official traffic-control device, or temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaging in the loading or unloading of merchandise or passengers.
(2) The business district is defined, for the purpose of this division (E), as being bound by Cottonwood Avenue to the north, Montana Avenue to the south, Second Street to the west and Fourth Street to the east.
(F) (1) Parking in a residential district alley shall be restricted in such a manner as not to hamper or restrict the free movement of traffic, and no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle within an alley in such manner or position as to block the driveway entrance to any abutting public or private property.
(2) The residential district is defined, for the purpose of this division (F)(2), as being all property within the city limits other than that which is defined within this section as being the business district.
(Prior Code, § 10.04.030) (Ord. 2021-14, passed 12-20-2021)